Semantic grep: Regular expressions + relational abstraction

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 267-276

  Bull, R Ian ^a   Trevors, Andrew ^a   Malton, Andrew J ^a   Godfrey, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer architecture; Data engineering; Database systems; Documentation; Open source software; Pattern matching; Relational databases; Software architecture; Software tools; Technology management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; PATTERN MATCHING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

DATA ENGINEERING; OPEN SOURCE DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; RECENT RESEARCHES; REGULAR EXPRESSIONS; RELATIONAL DATABASE; RELATIONAL QUERIES; TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENTS; TEXT-BASED QUERIES;

RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845460720     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2002.1173084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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